Six Manchester City supporters reportedly made an error over tickets for yesterday's League Cup final.
The friends purchased what they believed were tickets for the showpiece event at Wembley against Sunderland, but it turned out that they had actually paid to attend the Premier League match between the two teams, which was postponed last month.
The mistake was discovered before they left Manchester, but they decided to go to London anyway, where four of them managed to secure tickets in time to see City record a 3-1 win.
"A lad called Phil Brierley had looked after it all. He'd bought the tickets on the City website ages ago and put them all into envelopes for everyone. They hired a minibus to take them to Piccadilly and he handed them their envelopes," one of the friends, Andrew Heald, told the Manchester Evening News.
"They opened them and one of them spotted that there was no picture of the cup on their ticket. He thought that was odd and looked a bit closer at the date. They saw that they were for the home match at the Etihad that got called off last month!
"They had all paid £70 for a train ticket so they decided to come down anyway and called me to see if I could get them any. I spoke to a tout but he was after £200. Fortunately four of them managed to get one from City fans who wouldn't charge them more than face value but Phil and another lad ended up watching it in a curry house."
The victory marked the third time that City have won the competition in their history.
